Richmond, Va.-based Dominion Energy has signed two 20-year terminal service agreements with Japanese and Indian companies to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its proposed Dominion Cove Point liquefaction project in Maryland.

Shell US Gas & Power and Southern Liquefaction Co., a Kinder Morgan company, are forming a limited liability company to develop a natural gas liquefaction plant at an existing Elba Island LNG Terminal, near Savannah, Ga.

The debate on whether the United States should provide part of its plentiful supplies of natural gas as exports to other countries has stirred the opinions of industry groups, manufacturers and traders in recent weeks.